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What research papers exist about TeX and friends?
Some time ago there was a question on this site Are there any open research problems in the world of TeX?
In a similar spirit, I'd like to ask, whether there are any research articles out there in the peer-reviewed scientific literature which deal…
Henri Menke
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Insert a blank page after current page
I want to insert a blank page in a document so that the text would be added to the content of the current page till it reaches end of the page, the next page would be empty, and the text continue from the third page!
If I used \afterpage{\newpage}…
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A cookbook in LaTeX?
I am interested in making a cookbook in LaTeX. Each page will contain a recipe, including ingredients, instructions, and a photo of the finished food. Has this been done previously? Where do I start? Should I make my own document class for a…
Justin J Stark
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Difference between align and alignat environments
What is the difference between align and alignat environments?
anilomjf
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How to influence the name of the pdf file created with pdfLaTeX (from within the source code)?
I have a source file called 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex and I'd like to create a PDF file from it called only Myfilename.pdf.
Can this be configured from within the .tex file itself?
(It seems to be possible with
pdflatex -jobname=Myfilename.tex…
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Add page and line numbers to a pdf
Is there any quick script to add page and line numbers to each page of a pdf document?
I often enough get articles in pdf to review, with no page number. I end up writing them by hand to refer to each page when pointing errors.
When referring an…
J..y B..y
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How to write norm which adjusts its size?
I need to write norm of sum, but the sum symbol is larger than tho norm symbol (||) and it doesn't look good. Is there any symbol for norm which will adjust its size?
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
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Suzie
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Continuous footnote numbering
I would like footnote numbering to continue over pages and chapters. In my document it's reset every chapter. I'm using the report documentclass.
Robert Massa
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Tips for choosing hardware for best LaTeX compile performance
Which things should one have in mind when one wants to buy new hardware optimized for best (pdf)latex performance?
For example one might think the more cores on your cpu the better. But since latex is a linear thing there is no much space for…
student
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How to use PSTricks in pdfLaTeX?
I thought that PSTricks package was not possible to use in pdfLaTeX but the user Dima claims otherwise.
How can I force pdfLaTeX to use PSTricks then?
Martin Vseticka
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Important improvements of LaTeX over the last ten years (2013-2022)
We haven't had this question since many years (2016, 2014, 2010), but especially the question from 2014 has been viewed for more than 50k times, so it seems we should provide an up-to-date answer once in a while.
So what are the most important…
Keks Dose
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Why do LaTeX internal commands have an @ in them?
Does the @ mean anything specific? For example, is it substituted? Does it split the command into parts, like \s@foo could internally mean "foo of type s"? Is the purpose of the @ only to make internal commands break when used outside a class…
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How to include PDF pages without a newpage before the first page?
I am using pdfpages which works quite well.
But this time, I want to include a 5 page pdf and the first page should be scaled down a bit such that above the first page is enough space for a subsection (in the LaTeX document).
Using…
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How to hide todo notes without deleting them manually?
I'm using the package todonotes. How can I disable the todo notes for printing my final document?
(I know it's possible, but I can't find it and I don't want to (manually) delete all my notes in the document...)
I've read the documentation, but I…
Splashy
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Creating playing cards using TikZ
This question led to a new package:
playcards
I'm creating a card game, specifically a computer science Fluxx variant, and want to generate the cards through *TeX. They should look like this:
In some of them I want to put some graphics or…
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